Most recently, Reinhold started and directed the Laboratório de Design, Inovação e Criatividade (d-USPLeste) at the Universidade de São Paulo (USP), the first major university-based design thinking initiative in Latin America. This initiative on innovation and design thinking at USP has won him acclaim as a speaker at the 2011 TEDx Conference on Innovation and Education in Porto Alegre.

Reinhold worked at Stanford University in the field of learning, design and technology for 17 years, including as Associate Director of Learner Experience (LX) Design with the Stanford Learning Laboratory and the Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning. From 1996 – 1997 he was a Program Manager with Apple Computer’s Advanced Technology Group, leading ACOTNet, the globally distributed community of the Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow program.

Reinhold was a visiting professor at the University of São Paulo in 2010/2011, and a visiting researcher at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Cali, Colombia. He is the recipient of the ICETEX Innovation Fellowship from the Colombian government. He also taught at Santa Clara University in Silicon Valley, and continues to offer courses at the Virtual University of São Paulo (UniVesp) as well as the Fundação Vanzolini.

A native of Germany, Reinhold has lived on four continents and speaks German, English, Portuguese and Spanish. He would love to have a chance to brush up on his rusty French.